No better ground for deer than the side of Ben Linter was there in all those highlands.

And the Linter, rushing down into the Lough through rocks which, in some places, almost met together above its waters, ran so near to the house that the pleasant noise of its cataracts could be heard from the hall door.

Behind the house the expanse of drained park land seemed to be interminable; and then, again, came the mountains.

There were Ben Linn and Ben Lody;--and the whole territory belonging to Mr.Kennedy.He was laird of Linn and laird of Linter, as his people used to say.

And yet his father had walked into Glasgow as a little boy,--no doubt with the normal half-crown in his breeches pocket.
"Magnificent;--is it not ?" said Phineas to the Treasury Secretary, as they were being driven up to the door.
"Very grand;--but the young trees show the new man.